Quotes About Fairness

Justice must be swift … and sure … and final.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

So the disciple of Proverbs will acquire discipline that will produce a prudent life, and that prudent life will be demonstrated by "doing what is right and just and fair.

There is a difference in claiming for victim hood and standing up and saying the plain field is not level.

But when things are obviously not right—wherever people are being overcharged and underserved, wherever sloth or downright discourtesy is offered—it is up to each and every one of us to protest.

Yeah," Swordtail said fervently. "HiveWings don't care about anyone but themselves." Cricket flinched, and Blue frowned at Swordtail. "That's really unfair, Swordtail. You don't know what's going on in their hearts. The only HiveWing you know well is Cricket, and she cares a lot.

There's no difference between justice and revenge.

Whoever invented the concept of fairness, anyway? Isn't everything easier if you simply get rid of the idea of justice altogether? You think the quantity of pleasure, the degree of suffering is constant among all men?

From the late Francis Schaeffer: One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary. To be conservative today is to miss the whole point, for conservatism means standing in the flow of the status quo, and the status quo no longer belongs to us. If we want to be fair, we must teach the young to be revolutionaries, revolutionaries against the status quo.

We still equate fair skin with superior intelligence. Even equate it with beauty. The sun is too strong here. It darkens us and saps us. Paleness is synonymous with worldly success, because paleness is the mark of intellectual, not physical endeavor and worldly success is seldom achieved with the muscles.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

It doesn't matter who's correct, what matters is who's right.

God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.

It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

Learning how to weigh evidence and fairly re-establish a boundary can be as much an art as a science.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

May the surprises in your lives always be good ones. And may the people in your lives treat you kindly and fairly. And may the choices and sacrifices you make in your lives be the right ones for you. May you be blessed in every way, and happy in your lives.